Yayasan Pendidikan Indonesia (YPI) | POVERTY REDUCTION: THE ROLE OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS FOR ICT

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) should mobilise financial resources – domestic/external and/or public/private – to meet the opportunities for more effective co-operation among all those seeking to harness the power of ICT to combat poverty...

The OECD has been active in international efforts to expand the role of ICT as tools of economic growth and poverty reduction. Through two Global Forums – in March 2001 on “Digital Opportunities for Poverty Reduction” (www.oecd.org/dac/digitalforum) and March 2003 on “Integrating ICT in Development Programmes” (www.oecd.org/dac/ict), the Organisation has focused on the challenge of “marrying” ICT with development programmes in a fully effective way.[1]

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